Lubbock taking a day on to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
While many area offices will be closed for the Martin Luther King. Jr. holiday Monday, some Lubbockites will be spending the day showing they re open to helping others.
From home construction to working in gardens and building a greenhouse, there are plenty of hands-on volunteer opportunities to have a “day on” to celebrate the late civil rights leader. There are also ways to contribute without leaving your home, including an MLK Day Conversation for Good hosted from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom by the Volunteer Center of Lubbock. And there are numerous ways to donate funds to organizations in need.
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While some may take the day off, Lubbock Habitat for Humanity will be working on Martin Luther King Day. The nonprofit organization is requesting Lubbock residents to assist them in building affordable housing for those in need.
Lubbock Habitat Executive Director Christy Reeves tells KAMC News that the best way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is to give back to the East Lubbock community.
Habitat for Humanity will be hard at work on Monday, Jan. 18, working in the Talkington Addition construction site at 4040 North Guava. Habitat for Humanity, with funding from the J.T. and Margaret Talkington Foundation, began working on the addition of 22 new homes back in March of 2016.
When Lubbock Police Chief Floyd Mitchell looks at the crime data from 2020, he sees a lot of statistics trending down.
Total home burglaries were down 13% compared to 2019 s totals, thefts from motor vehicles were down 10%, and destruction or vandalism was down 3%. These are all property crimes, and all together, property crimes were down 11% compared to the year prior.
Chief Mitchell says COVID-19 may have been a factor in this. A lot of people were at home, so their houses did not get burglarized, Mitchell said. It s hard for us to pinpoint exactly what caused this 11% decrease right now, but that s what we believe was the biggest cause of that people were at home.
Brownfield man indicted for hit-and-run that killed Lubbock motorcyclist
A 34-year-old Brownfield man who reportedly admitted to driving a vehicle involved in a November hit-and-run crash that killed a 70-year-old motorcyclist in East Lubbock was indicted Tuesday.
Joseph Cruz who surrendered to police on Nov. 24, is charged with a second-degree felony count of failure to stop and render aid involving a death, in connection with the Nov. 16 hit-and-run wreck that killed Benigno Salas, who was riding a motorcycle eastbound in the 3200 block of East Fourth Street, according to a Lubbock police news release.
Investigators believe Salas collided with a Mitsubishi Lancer that failed to yield right of way as it turned south at the intersection of Fourth Street and Idalou Road, the release states.